TY - BOOK ID - 8432444 TI - Computer-aided nonlinear control system design : using describing function models PY - 2012 SN - 1447121481 1447159861 1283443899 9786613443892 144712149X PB - London : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Astronautics. KW - Chemical engineering. KW - Computer aided design. KW - Engineering. KW - Feedback control systems -- Computer-aided design. KW - Nonlinear control theory. KW - Feedback control systems KW - Nonlinear control theory KW - Mechanical Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Mechanical Engineering - General KW - Computer-aided design KW - Computer engineering. KW - Computers KW - Design and construction KW - Computer-aided engineering. KW - Automotive engineering. KW - Aerospace engineering. KW - Control engineering. KW - Mechatronics. KW - Control. KW - Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design. KW - Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering. KW - Automotive Engineering. KW - Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. KW - Control theory KW - Nonlinear theories KW - Control and Systems Theory. KW - Space sciences KW - Aeronautics KW - Astrodynamics KW - Space flight KW - Space vehicles KW - Construction KW - Industrial arts KW - Technology KW - Chemistry, Industrial KW - Engineering, Chemical KW - Industrial chemistry KW - Engineering KW - Chemistry, Technical KW - Metallurgy KW - CAD (Computer-aided design) KW - Computer-assisted design KW - Computer-aided engineering KW - Design KW - Aeronautical engineering KW - Astronautics KW - Mechanical engineering KW - Microelectronics KW - Microelectromechanical systems KW - CAE KW - Control engineering KW - Control equipment KW - Engineering instruments KW - Automation KW - Programmable controllers KW - Data processing UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8432444 AB - A systematic computer-aided approach provides a versatile setting for the control engineer to overcome the complications of controller design for highly nonlinear systems. Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design provides such an approach based on the use of describing functions. The text deals with a large class of nonlinear systems without restrictions on the system order, the number of inputs and/or outputs or the number, type or arrangement of nonlinear terms. The strongly software-oriented methods detailed facilitate fulfillment of tight performance requirements and help the designer to think in purely nonlinear terms, avoiding the expedient of linearization which can impose substantial and unrealistic model limitations and drive up the cost of the final product. Design procedures are presented in a step-by-step algorithmic format each step being a functional unit with outputs that drive the other steps. This procedure may be easily implemented on a digital computer with example problems from mechatronic and aerospace design being used to demonstrate the techniques discussed. The author’s commercial MATLAB®-based environment, available separately from insert URL here, can be used to create simulations showing the results of using the computer-aided control system design ideas characterized in the text. Academic researchers and graduate students studying nonlinear control systems and control engineers dealing with nonlinear plant, particularly mechatronic or aerospace systems will find Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design to be of great practical assistance adding to their toolbox of techniques for dealing with system nonlinearities. A basic knowledge of calculus, nonlinear analysis and software engineering will enable the reader to get the best from this book. ER -